A cat called Trooper has survived being frozen to a driveway for 24 hours.
There is growing diplomatic pressure on Syria as violence intensifies - but few expect change to be imminent.
A retired senior RUC officer has told the Smithwick Tribunal that Freddie Scappaticci was a member of the IRA's internal security unit known as the 'Nutting Squad'.
The death of 74 people in violence at a football match in the northern Egyptian city of Port Said on Wednesday is the latest in a long line of stadium tragedies.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Derry, when 14 innocent civil rights marchers were shot dead by British soldiers.
A rare, all-white blackbird has been a regular visitor to a Dublin garden for the past few months.